Distributed Rendering taking longer

[ahmon]

I have a quad core and a dual core. When i render with just the quad it takes 3.5 hours and when i use dr with both it takes close to 5 hours. Could this be because all my materials and files are on a external hard drive connected to the quad core but it is mapped so both have it. Should i be using a hard drive connected to my router or even another computer that is used only for storage? Would this help?

 

Quad is 2.4

Dual is 2.0

 

Thanks for any advice given.

[tecton3d]

how much RAM is the scene using when you render?

 

Off the cuff, and admittedly not knowing much about V-Ray, it sounds like your rendering machine is running out of RAM which will destroy a rendering pipeline... no matter how many, or few, machines you have.

 

having the scene mapped to the external hd isn't ideal since performance is slower than a hd connected to the mobo but i don't expect that is the root of your problem.

 

Try moving the scene folder to the local hd, render at a lower resolution, and see if that changes anything.

 

you may have better luck post this over on the technical forum

 

prost

[alex3d]

i work with all my textures on an external intel nas (the ship nas), of course conected in a gigb network using a semi-pro cisco switch, is a rocket

external usb hard drive sucks if you are trying to get acsess from more than one computer at the same time.